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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#between #calamity #difference #dragged #fell

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#circumstances #creature #creatures #free #free agents

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#like #man #nature #sometimes #weeps

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#less #more #powerful #talked #you

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it. ↗

— Kevin Brady

#actually #balancing #between #budget #difficult

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. ↗

— William Blake

#dwelling #god #love #mercy #pity

I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#few #few people #get #haven #i

I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#cholesterol #directly #eat #energy #feel

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through. ↗

— Otto Dix

#after #afterwards #along #badly #could

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag. ↗

— Bill Dixon

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